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    Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” is a very interesting story of a woman defeating domination by the man figures in her life. Gilman reveals to the readers how a woman going through postpartum depression feels loneliness and isolation from the outside world‚ and suppresses her own interests. Gilman discloses how men used to treat women‚ and how women’s needs and interests were suppressed at that time. The central idea of this story is that women‚ who are going through any kind of health

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    person will be prosecuted. Today in our society‚ people have believed that men are the superior gender. Everywhere‚ from the bible to the everyday life‚ men are given a high pedestal while women are treated as second class citizens. In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath‚ Esther Greenwood struggles with this idea of how women are treated and how that leads to mental deterioration. According to a document on sexual assault‚ sexual assault is a crime of power and control. Sexual assault is used when

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    A response to The Bell Jar You would expect anybody to want the story of depression and suicidal thoughts to leave your memory as soon as the last page was over. However‚ The Bell Jar is more about the spirit of survival when you are trapped inside yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath

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    characters through imagery and symbolism. In the yellow wallpaper‚ Charlotte Gilman demonstrates the oppression of women by society while showing the struggle to be set free. Alternatively‚ John Cheever conveys the ignorance of a man’s downfall through time. However‚ the yellow paper and the swimmer both show gradual loss of reality as the characters oppress their problems while they strive to fit in with the norms of society. The yellow wallpaper takes the readers on a journey that captures the

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    Author’s Purpose Sylvia Plath writes her autobiography The Bell Jar utilizing a smart protagonist‚ whose life is driven into depression by the deterioration of today’s society to familiarize her readers with suicide. Esther lives a perfect life‚ according to anyone looking at her on the surface. Esther continues to live her life in a fully coordinated “patent-leather” outfit from “Bloomingdale’s” while she sips “martinis” surrounded by “anonymous young men with all-American bone structures”‚ yet

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    In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans’ The Yellow Wallpaper‚ the main theme is the oppression and repression of woman. We follow the narrator as her confinement within herself and her room slowly drive her insane. The main character is trapped by the wallpaper’s vine pattern‚ which she sees as a cage other women are stuck behind‚ just as her physician husband has trapped her in the room. There is also a gender division throughout the story. This gender division had the effect of keeping the narrator in a

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    Caitlin Ramsey English 102 April 5‚ 2007 Chief Symbols in The Yellow Wallpaper Gender roles play a significant part in The Yellow Wallpaper‚ represented heavily by the physical yellow wallpaper in the bedroom of the summer mansion. This story‚ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ even begins on the first page and throughout the entire story‚ the narrator portrays women in the common air of being dominated by men. Especially during this time‚ women were oppressed not only by their husbands but

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    children and clean the house. Women were supposed to live their lives in the “domestic sphere.” This way of living is the way that John‚ the narrator’s husband‚ expected her to live. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” was not happy or willing to live this way and became ill. The yellow wallpaper used in the narrator’s room symbolizes female imprisonment. The narrator uses a horror-themed tale in order to show the position women had in their marriages. Their marriages were very one-sided‚ the man

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    mental health. College is supposed to be an unforgettable experience‚ yet for many students it comes in the form of depression. This onset depression may start before college‚ yet college has a great impact on the suicide rate of young adults. In The Bell Jar‚ written by Sylvia Plath‚ the main character‚ Esther Greenwood‚ struggles with suicidal depression on top of being a working college student‚ something Plath relates to entirely. Many people

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    All About the Yellow Bell Flower By J.W. Carpenter ‚ last updated August 23‚ 2011 The Yellow Bell Flower (Allamanda cathartica)‚ also well known as the Golden Trumpet Vine or Buttercup Flower‚ is a fast-growing evergreen shrubby vine commonly enjoyed for its bright‚ bell- or trumpet-shaped blooms. It can be trained to grow on a trellis‚ a tree trunk‚ or another vertical support‚ or it can be maintained as a shrub. As a tropical vine‚ it is typically grown as an annual or wintered indoors in climates

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